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Jeff Bentley and his son Colin, 4, were out on Captain Judy's charter boat a couple weeks ago when the youngster landed this amberjack. Capt. Judy said when Colin got the amberjack into the boat he couldn't take his eyes off it. It wasn't the only fish Colin caught that day, but it was certainly the biggest.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has completed a report recommending closing human access to caves and mines where bats with white-nose syndrome are hibernating in an area more than 250 miles from other WNS-affected caves and mines. The report also recommends limiting human access to unaffected caves and mines. These recommendations presume that WNS spreads not only from bat-to-bat, but also is spread by human activity.

Hello, everybody. Ol' Tight Line here and I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I'm glad I waited until after Thanksgiving to write the article because I got some good reports over the holiday weekend.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - The leatherback turtle, elkhorn corals, and flatwoods salamander have been identified as three of America's top endangered wildlife, birds, fish and plants impacted by global warming in a new report released last week. The report, America's Hottest Species, demonstrates ways that our changing climate is increasing the risk of extinction for species around the United States.

LIZELLA - A commitment to offering inshore redfish anglers opportunities for lucrative payouts and low participation costs continues in 2010, evidenced by the IFA Redfish Tour's recently released 2010 regular-season schedule. The schedule features 18 events contested across six divisions with the tour making stops in some of the most famed redfish destinations in the country.

SOCIAL CIRCLE - The Georgia Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation recently honored Cpl. Johnny Ashe with the officer of the year award, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources' Wildlife Resources Division.